top 50% hacker news stories for 2026-09-05

Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-launch-norway-andoya-spaceport-spectrum-rocket

1 month ago

750 upvotes – 436 comments

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances

1 month ago

★ 72 Nim
732 upvotes – 403 comments

Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/9/1.html

1 month ago

620 upvotes – 118 comments

The revolt of the reader

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/the-revolt-of-the-reader/

1 month ago

609 upvotes – 299 comments

We built our house for LAN parties (2024)

https://lanparty.house/

1 month ago

1 change
589 upvotes – 366 comments

The Real Luxuries In Life

https://feld.com/archives/2026/09/the-real-luxuries-in-life/

1 month ago

1 change
527 upvotes – 244 comments

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems

https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems

1 month ago

418 upvotes – 349 comments

LLMs as a Cognitive Virus

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344

1 month ago

394 upvotes – 256 comments

Netherlands pulls gold out of the US

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-04/why-the-netherlands-moved-its-gold-from-us-and-canada/107111990

1 month ago

1 change
381 upvotes – 270 comments

Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop

https://reason.com/2026/09/02/wisconsin-cops-used-flock-over-100-times-to-track-a-navy-veteran-after-he-lawfully-recorded-a-traffic-stop/

1 month ago

380 upvotes – 209 comments

The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

https://devquasar.com/hardware/the-60-gaming-pc-amd-bc-250/

1 month ago

379 upvotes – 114 comments

Git hosting that never leaves Europe

https://pushin.eu

1 month ago

375 upvotes – 172 comments

Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/global-warming-will-exceed-1-5-degree-limit-un-says-in-report-that-maps-path-back-below-danger-zone

1 month ago

340 upvotes – 393 comments

How the Disaster of "Forever Chemicals" Was Kept Secret

https://www.propublica.org/podcast/forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-3m-secret-kris-hansen

1 month ago

1 change
328 upvotes – 104 comments

Learn Programming with OCaml

https://usr.lmf.cnrs.fr/lpo/

1 month ago

317 upvotes – 139 comments

Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA

https://wikiworkersunited.org/announcements/2026-09-04-us-wikimedia-foundation-workers-overwhelmingly-vote-to-form-union-with-cwa/

1 month ago

300 upvotes – 174 comments

Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577129

1 month ago

299 upvotes – 166 comments

Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.24888

1 month ago

1 change
241 upvotes – 59 comments

Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory

https://sofiabelen.github.io/projects/visualizing-rusts-vtables-how-dyn-trait-works-in-memory/

1 month ago

214 upvotes – 52 comments

Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgyn8q8gqxo

1 month ago

196 upvotes – 327 comments

.gitignore Everything by Default

https://packagemain.tech/p/gitignore-everything-by-default

1 month ago

186 upvotes – 173 comments

South African diamond mines are closing due to weak sales and lab-grown stones

https://www.wsj.com/business/diamond-mines-are-closing-and-south-africans-have-few-alternatives-fa3b8cbf

1 month ago

180 upvotes – 167 comments

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2

https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/artificial-analysis-intelligence-index-v4-2

1 month ago

158 upvotes – 65 comments

Terpstra Keyboard

http://terpstrakeyboard.com/

1 month ago

151 upvotes – 65 comments

Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster

https://pointersgonewild.com/2026-08-25-replacing-a-rust-enum-with-a-64-bit-word/

1 month ago

142 upvotes – 63 comments

How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025)

https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/how-tobacco-industry-drove-rise-ultra-processed-foods

1 month ago

1 change
139 upvotes – 141 comments

Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/09/meet-the-2026-ig-nobel-prize-winners/

1 month ago

1 change
119 upvotes – 46 comments

Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/pentagon-releases-then-quickly-removes-testosterone-screening-policy/

1 month ago

115 upvotes – 109 comments

A bizarre Commodore 64 peripheral, a mime, and some pretty bad ads

https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/spartan-and-the-mime/

1 month ago

108 upvotes – 14 comments

Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss1DUqLjecc

1 month ago

107 upvotes – 18 comments

There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

https://zachkehs.com/blog/theres_no_limit_to_how_bad_code_can_get/

1 month ago

107 upvotes – 83 comments

Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it

https://mrdee.in/mandala/

1 month ago

86 upvotes – 34 comments

LG TVs aren't the only ones spying on you [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvFu343KNek

1 month ago

84 upvotes – 18 comments

An Accidental Blackboard

https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-gen-ai/an-accidental-blackboard.html

1 month ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-determine-how-to-spot-fake-ancient-pottery-using-the-earths-magnetic-field-180989441/

1 month ago

82 upvotes – 30 comments

OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents

https://github.com/okf-memory/okf-agent-memory

1 month ago

★ 578 Go MIT
80 upvotes – 32 comments

Implementation of GCC's Nested Functions (vs. C++ Lambdas)

https://uecker.codeberg.page/2026-09-05.html

1 month ago

77 upvotes – 42 comments

GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost

https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/gpt-6-astra-code-review-evaluation

1 month ago

74 upvotes – 77 comments

Finite time blowup for an averaged three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equation (2014)

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/finite-time-blowup-for-an-averaged-three-dimensional-navier-stokes-equation/

1 month ago

1 change
74 upvotes – 52 comments
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